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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Each day, Florida gains an average of 1,000 residents and loses more than 200 acres of forest—but University of Florida experts say rapid urbanization doesn't doom the state to a treeless existence.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Each day, Florida gains an average of 1,000 residents and loses more than 200 acres of forest—but University of Florida experts say rapid urbanization doesn’t doom the state to a treeless existence.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Neonatal intensive care units designed with single-family rooms not only increase patient privacy but also boost staff satisfaction and reduce stress, according to a University of Florida study.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A gift from the Thomas H. Maren Foundation to the University of Florida’s College of Medicine will enable emerging scientists to conduct world-class research and provide the college with another means to develop cancer treatments.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “Dick Tracy,” “Flash Gordon,” “Captain Kidd,” “Li’l Abner,” “Oliver Twist,” – and thousands of other vintage films now have a permanent home in the George A. Smathers Libraries and will be available for research and enjoyment, thanks to vintage film collector Bill Brothers of Stuart, Fla.

Looking for that distinctive, one-of-a-kind place to host a special event? Look no farther than West University Avenue. For the first time in its history, the University of Florida President's House is available for rental.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Law Review will host its annual fall symposium, featuring a panel discussion on "A Reporter's Privilege," at 1 p.m. Friday in the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. This event is open to the public.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Lower gas prices, high employment levels and possibly the mid-term election results boosted consumer confidence in Florida by three points in November to 93, boding well for holiday shopping sales, University of Florida economists report.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Law Review will host its annual fall symposium, featuring a panel discussion on “A Reporter’s Privilege,” at 1 p.m. Friday in the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. This event is open to the public.

The holiday season is a time for carols, cookies, candlelight and the annual University of Florida School of Music’s Sounds of the Season concert. This year’s event, which features performances by the University Choir, Women’s Chorale and Men’s Glee Club, gets under way at 6 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 3, at the University Auditorium. After the concert, guests are invited to light a candle and join a procession to the Reitz Student Union, where there will be singing of carols, a tree lighting ceremony and refreshments.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida Players, the University of Florida’s student-run theater company, continues to move at full throttle with the final installment of its fall 2006 season, “30 Neo-Futurists Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.”

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In an era when the Jewish population in America is stable or declining, ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish numbers are growing rapidly — a trend that may make the Jewish community not only more religiously observant but also more politically conservative.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Museum of Natural History will host a student music variety show during the last Museum Nights of the fall semester from 5 to 10 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 30. Musical acts include two marimba ensembles, a number of student solos and the University of Florida Sedoctaves, who perform a cappella arrangements of old and new songs.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Museum of Natural History scientists Doug and Pam Soltis and David Dilcher, and William Stern, University of Florida Botany Professor Emeritus, recently received centennial awards from the Botanical Society of America for their outstanding service to the plant sciences and the society.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A combination of luck and being in the right place at the right time allowed a University of Florida geologist and other scientists to capture and record an undersea volcanic eruption for the first time ever.

University of Florida Department of Journalism Chair William McKeen joined Bill Clinton, Al Gore and scientists, engineers and Web masters earlier this month in being named a Fellow by the World Technology Network at its San Francisco summit.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Center of Excellence for Regenerative Health Biotechnology (CERHB) has a new home in Progress Corporate Park in Alachua. The university dedicated a 46,000-square-foot educational and manufacturing facility Nov. 15.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An experimental gene therapy to combat alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a common hereditary disorder that causes lung and liver disease, has caused no harmful effects in patients and shows signs of being effective, University of Florida researchers say.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For millions of Americans, eating turkey is an essential part of the holidays, but for some Haitian children it represents a chance for a better life, thanks to University of Florida faculty members working to improve nutrition in the impoverished Caribbean country.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With a prescription of regular structured exercise, sedentary elderly are able to safely improve their physical function and may reduce the likelihood they will experience difficulty walking a quarter mile, according to findings from a multicenter pilot study led by the University of Florida Institute on Aging.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Droughts and longer summers tied to global warming are causing more fires in the Earth’s vast northernmost forests, a phenomenon that will spew a steadily increasing amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Board of Governors gave its unanimous approval to a proposed University of Florida program that would improve the UF undergraduate educational experience by hiring 200 additional faculty members and 100 academic advisers.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Among American teenagers, the leading cause of death is motor vehicle injury. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control estimate 34 percent of all adolescent deaths result from motor vehicle accidents.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Although cooler temperatures have arrived in Florida, horses in the Sunshine State are still at risk for contracting potentially fatal mosquito-borne diseases, such as West Nile virus, University of Florida veterinarians and state officials warn.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — One of the state’s leading hurricane experts will be the featured speaker at an international conference on fluid dynamics beginning Sunday in Tampa. The three-day conference is being organized by the University of Florida.

A new study shows cocaine is making a major comeback as a killer of college-age students and people with a lot of disposable income. New data from the University of Florida and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows that cocaine is increasingly cited as the cause of death in coroner’s reports.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Mort Rosenblum, visiting professor from the Department of Journalism at the University of Arizona, will speak on “Understanding International Issues and Why the Media Fails Us” at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 16, in the New Physics Building 1001.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Women who have chest pain but no evidence of clogged arteries on conventional imaging tests are nonetheless four times more likely to eventually be hospitalized for heart failure, suffer a heart attack or stroke, or die than women without heart disease symptoms, University of Florida researchers report.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Bedbugs are back, so University of Florida experts are helping revive an old method that makes it easier — and less expensive — for pest control operators to fight the blood-sucking insects.

A proposed new program for University of Florida undergraduate students would enable the university to enhance the undergraduate educational experience by hiring 200 additional faculty members and 100 academic advisers.

The crop simulation lab was part of Bostick’s work area as a graduate student. Officials, including Jimmy Cheek, senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources, will speak. Bostick’s family is expected to attend the short ceremony.

Ainsley Carry has joined the University of Florida as assistant vice president for student affairs. Carry, a UF alum and former member of the Gator football team, comes to the position from Temple University, where he was associate vice president and dean of students.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A team of University of Florida engineering students has won an international design competition for creating an automated process to print high-quality images on cubes of sticky notes for a division of BIC USA Inc.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An upcoming international supercomputing conference and exhibit in Tampa will showcase a method of transporting vast amounts of information at a speed and capacity 10 times the current standard.

GAINESVILLE, FL – Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses, a von Karajan protégée, Tchaikovsky gold medal winner and first prize winner in the Munich International Competition, will be the featured soloist appearing with the Orquestra de São Paulo in a 7:30 p.m. performance Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Phillips Center.

GAINESVILLE, FL – Anonymous 4 will perform at 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 19, in the University Auditorium as a part of the “Long Time Traveling” tour with Darol Anger and Scott Nygaard. A pre-performance discussion is planned for 3 p.m.

GAINESVILLE, FL – The Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company will perform at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 21, at the Phillips Center. A pre-performance discussion with the company will be held at 6:45 p.m.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida President Bernie Machen will join U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and other national leaders in higher education on a trip to Japan, Korea and China, starting Friday.

GAINESVILLE, FL – The Maria Schneider Orchestra will take the stage of the Phillips Center at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 17. A pre-performance discussion led by University of Florida School of Music Professor Gary Langford is scheduled for 6:45 p.m.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A group of students at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, under the direction of former Florida Supreme Court Justice Ben F. Overton, has prepared an analysis of the six proposed amendments to the state’s constitution, and made the results of their work available online.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The eighth University of Florida Information Technology Security Awareness Day will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. Nov. 8 in the University of Florida Reitz Student Union Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the office of the interim chief information officer and will be hosted by the UF IT Security Team.

The University of Florida Counseling Center has initiated a three-year suicide prevention and education program to provide training to faculty, staff and students. The program is sponsored by a grant from the Division of Student Affairs Parent Fund, which allows the training to be offered free to student groups, classrooms and departments across campus.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Department of Astronomy is offering the community a preview of the world's largest telescope set to open in early 2007 in the Canary Islands through a free event, "Voyage with the Gran Telescopio Canarias," from 5 to 9 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Student Government will host Museum Nights with a celebration of the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, at the Harn Museum of Art and Florida Museum of Natural History in the UF Cultural Plaza.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Public radio station WUFT-FM, Classic 89.1 will broadcast a special 90-minute documentary, “The Long Road: From Poverty to Prosperity,” at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 6. This “Sound Rich” program is hosted by WUFT-FM news reporter Claudia Hickey and reveals an in-depth look at what causes poverty in Bradford County.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Genetic analysis of an obscure, worm-like creature retrieved from the depths of the North Atlantic has led to the discovery of a new phylum, a rare event in an era when most organisms have already been grouped into major evolutionary categories.

On Nov. 30, the University of Florida’s Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) and its partners will bring national small-business research and technology experts Jim and Gail Greenwood to help startup businesses learn how to access federal funding sources.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Monsters, special effects, actors, sets. These aren’t references to a Hollywood thriller; they are the photographic techniques used by contemporary artist Charlie White. At 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 9, guests of the Harn Museum of Art will gain a rare look into the mind of the artist himself as he joins the museum for a special Museum Nights lecture and book signing.

If you’re dating someone who thinks a lot of him or herself, don’t plan on a long or very satisfying relationship. A new University of Florida study shows the greater a narcissist’s interest in sex, the less committed they tend to be in a romantic relationship.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The part of the brain responsible for making most decisions about how to behave seems to develop less quickly in children exposed to cocaine before they were born, University of Florida researchers have found.

Experts say space science has a lot of potential, but it hasn’t had much computer power behind it. So, get ready for the first super-computer in space. Working with NASA and Honeywell, University of Florida engineers are developing a super-computer to work in space. Currently, scientific satellites download raw data back to the ground, but UF computer engineer Alan George says space scientists face increasingly limited bandwidth for those downloads.

Women with chest pain sometimes ignore the symptom. Now, a study shows those women have a much greater risk for a heart attack than women with no pain. University of Florida researchers studied women who’ve had chest pain but whose heart exam revealed no blocked arteries or other problems. UF expert Rhonda Cooper-DeHoff says women shouldn’t ignore the pain.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida employees can sample healthy holiday cooking Thursday, Nov. 9, at “Taste of the Holidays,” an event sponsored by Living Well Faculty and Staff Wellness Center, and Healthy Gators 2010.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – “Bent” by Martin Sherman is the second show this season for the Florida Players, the University of Florida’s student-run theater company. Show times are 7:30 p.m., Nov. 16 and 17, and 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., Nov. 19, in the Black Box Theatre of the Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion. Performances are free and open to the public. To reserve tickets, send an e-mail to tickets@floridaplayers.org.

Women with chest pain sometimes ignore the symptom. Now, a study shows those women have a much greater risk for a heart attack than women with no pain. University of Florida researchers studied women who’ve had chest pain but whose heart exam revealed no blocked arteries or other problems. UF expert Rhonda Cooper-DeHoff says women shouldn’t ignore the pain.

Women with chest pain often ignore the symptom under the advice of their doctors. Many believe chest pain in women is not the same grave sign it can be for men, but University of Florida research shows women who experience chest pain are at higher risk for heart attack, stroke, or even death.

“Hairspray,” Broadway’s musical comedy phenomenon, is coming to the Phillips Center for two 7:30 p.m. performances Dec. 5 and 6. After its acclaimed world premiere at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre in June 2002, the fantastically fun musical opened on Broadway in August 2002 to rave reviews, winning eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.